I want to wipe down my MacBook Pro keys every so often to clean them. After I shut down and as I wipe the keys the laptop boots up. How can I lock the keyboard so the boot-up doesn't happen? OR disable the boot-up with the press of any key?
MacBook Pro (M2 Max, 2023)
The best answer is to provide feedback to Apple, as there is not a setting to achieve what you want.
While it would be ideal to clean the keys with the power off, the workaround to avoid disastrous keyboard strokes is to open TextEdit and clean away. No worry about accidentally changing file names or other unexpected results when cleaning. When done, just close the file and quit TextEdit.
The best answer is to provide feedback to Apple, as there is not a setting to achieve what you want.
While it would be ideal to clean the keys with the power off, the workaround to avoid disastrous keyboard strokes is to open TextEdit and clean away. No worry about accidentally changing file names or other unexpected results when cleaning. When done, just close the file and quit TextEdit.
There is no good option. The best option may be to clean the keyboard while at the login screen, although if the Return key is pressed, macOS may think you cannot remember the password and ask to reset it. Best just to reboot, if presented with a password reset screen again, then select "Restart" from the Apple menu once more.
Obviously no one at Apple has ever tried to clean the keyboards on their own recent Apple laptop models, or maybe they don't use their own products....doesn't make sense to me why pressing any key is needed to power on a laptop. Is it really so hard to reach for the power button Apple?
Actually there is this very neat feature developed by this Norwegian developer/youtuber Marko.
https://www.withmarko.com/one-menu
You can literally switch on/off your keyboard.
How is Power Up on any keystroke even useful for anything???
Previously, I had to avoid cleaning the power button on my Air. It's even trickier now on Pro.
I code a lot, so need to clean my keyboard periodically.
Thank you so much !!
It doesn't seem to work on Sonora? I hit 'Clean Keyboard' yet keys are still taking input. Do I miss something?
Did you give all necessary permissions for the application to run correctly ? Check them first
Great recommendation! Thanks
Seems to be working perfectly fine on mine. Try Deleting and re-installing, might need to give it permission.
How to lock the MacBook Pro keyboard to wipe clean the keys?
